BIO

Patrick Boehler has published on China and Southeast Asia in four languages for publications in the US, Europe and Asia. After stints with Austria's ministries of defence and foreign affairs in Vienna and Beijing, he began his reporting career in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian online news portal Malaysiakini and, later, The Irrawaddy Magazine, a Myanmar exile publication in Thailand. He holds a doctorate in political science and has taught journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
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Investments abroadXinhua*
Chinese state-owned contractors begins construction of last part of a new road linking Ulaanbaatar with the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.The Guardian
Chinese firm steps up investment in Ethiopia with a $2-billion shoe manufacturing zone.

OpinionChinaFile
China's diplomacy is like Pilates, writes Shai Oster.Financial Times
Until the link between corruption and development can be severed, no government official can safely savour his swordfish, writes Patti Waldmeir.